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US
/ˈhəntɪŋtən/
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NOUN
- a city of western West Virginia on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Kanawha
- United States physician who first described Huntington's chorea
- American revolutionary leader who signed the Declaration of Independence and was president of the Continental Congress (1731-1796)
- United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900)
How To Use Huntington In A Sentence
- Karen Miller, founder of the Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition, says she believes the next generation is going to be "feistier" in demanding a cure for breast cancer. KansasCity.com: Front Page
- A variety of bacteria -- including coliform, which is found in human waste -- can end up on your toothbrush if you keep it uncovered in your bathroom, says Eugene Antenucci, a dentist in Huntington, N.Y., and spokesman for the Academy of General Dentistry. New Devices Aim to Zap Grime, Germs
- The hallmark of the disorder is involuntary choreiform and athetotic movements, hence it is also known as Huntington's chorea.
- The discovery of the role filled by the protein, called MEC-17, could play a part in research of diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, in which brain cells degenerate, the researchers say. Livescience.com
- The argument goes that ageing is due to many, many, many mutations which, like Huntington's, affect us only late in life, mostly after we've reproduced.
- There is a touch of pathos in the picture of the prim, methodistical English lady, who hated the dirt and slovenliness of her husband's people, was shocked at their jovial ways and free talk, looked upon all Papists as connections of Antichrist, and hoped for the salvation of mankind through the form of religion patronised by Lady Huntington. Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
- Until now, clinics have been allowed only to screen embryos for untreatable conditions or conditions that affect children, such as Huntington's disease and cystic fibrosis.
- After manufacture at Huntington, 72 steel-framed modules have now been craned into position at Portsmouth.
- In 1862, Huntington worked New York, Washington, and Boston, spending three days in New York, two in Boston, and two in the capital, where he “borrowed, hocked and huckstered.” Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
- Huntington is incontrovertibly right that historically the origin of modern democracy is, as he says, rooted in Western Christianity.
